Color Family. Sometimes you walk past something and it strikes you. It’s often the composition helping the scene to be fascinating, but of course, the colors play a major part, and in all of it, the light must be right. Here again an evening dune from the path below, interesting to look up. Finding a part that’s having the ‘right’ dunegrass-line, the diagonals felt in the clouds, which continue in the dunes, that was the fascinating ‘thing’, and the blue shadows in the sand, overall brightness that evening can have, powerful clouds, beautiful colors. (No green! That helps the color family ..read more

Peeps are bothersome: ) Ah, back to the shoreline, here one of the (rare) sunny days in March, it took long, and the people that I didn’t encounter in the dunes, well, they were here, and they were annoying (hahaha). But true and difficult sometimes. You know, it’s different in ‘parasol-time’, then you KNOW, stuff will get crowded, and there will be 10 people stand behind you sometimes, but it’s different. It’s a given. The bikini people are often more self-occupied which is better than the ‘bored strolling pass-by-er’, to say it bluntly ;) Still true. Of course, the country, oh the country (o ..read more

About choices & fame. The video from this scene I added to the How-to Seascape Course.  (The snippets you see here are my Instagram video posts.) I like to keep the longer videos and real teaching for the courses. It’s a choice, I chose to ‘sell the knowledge and have it behind a paywall’ and you could probably get similar revenue from videos when you’d just put everything out for free on youtube and live of ad-revenue. But that would make you dependent on youtube, yes. And do you want that. Because when something happens to YT you’ve built on ‘rented land’. And if you’re getting shad ..read more

Top of the dune. On top of the dunes; one could create and create endlessly here. Some people think I live next to the sea, but no, I do have to drive 40 minutes or more to it. For some that IS near. Of all seasons I like the ones with the most clouds best, and clouds with light effects, grey, dark, strong light. A tiny spot of blue, pink clouds, light, light, light. Clouds create light effects on land and ocean, ‘stripes of light’. Here the far away dune edge is lit. The ochrish dune grass complements the blues and greys. I remember it being very windy and cold. But the variation in subjects ..read more

Painting is 'easy'. The publishing is 'work'. As I started the ‘daily painting’, for me, producing at least 2/3 paintings a week, the whole ‘publishing’ of these does ‘throw wrenches in the work’, I’m often behind in schedules when to publish, annoying, but I might have to accept it. It’s probably ‘perfectionism’ holding me back, wanting a good photo, but also the tech side, web/shop does take time. Life runs on.  Anyways, these dune paintings are from more than a month back, when it was still cold, the dune grass was winterish yellow, it was good to be back at the beach, but also the ‘du ..read more

Paint before the overcast. The yellow sun is easier to paint, there is more light out, more light in the sky. That beautiful haze, in a rainbowish order. There is always something to paint when you start early. After 10,11 often there’s overcast. Start earlier and catch the beauty! My other 'sun posts' already have many tips, won't repeat these again and again.. You can find the posts/paintings per category or per theme via the buttons in the sidebar. 138. SW03-2024 Sun and Frost over Dunes 20x29 cm | 8x11.5" Oils/Panel | Roos Schuring 2024 These paintings are placed in my paintings shop here ..read more

Illusive Red Sun. A red sun that I awaited. Started in the dark, and the winds were ice-cold. The clouds were there and the red one showed its face. As painters we need to turn ‘light’ into pigment, that’s the reason for value solutions that might differ from ‘what we see’. If you want the sun to be red AND have it have the highest light, all other areas should be darker than that. That makes it difficult! I could paint this every day and not get bored, it’s so difficult to ‘catch’ it, that makes it all so fascinating. And… there are ways around value contrast: color contrast. And… then you’ll ..read more

'Diagonal Feeling'.. Back in the dunes. The ice covered the sand here, but I was still in my ‘pink cloud obsession’ and so I was lucky to paint this and to enjoy it a lot. The day after, it had all changed again, with rain or overcast, so you see, if you see something you like, never hesitate, just paint it. 136. SW01-2024 Dune, Pink Clouds and Half Moon 20x25 cm | 8x10" - Oils/Panel | Roos Schuring 2024 These paintings are placed in my paintings shop here   'And Sculpting'.. The moon was higher 'in the frame' or in my view, but you are of course free (as a painter) to 'move stuff' so you ..read more

Infinite Ways but only Two Days. You often want ‘a second try’, multiple, if the snow had lasted longer! But at least I got my second go at this scene. Now the red was even more prevalent. Pink clouds against a turquoise sky, yum! Somehow this painting reminds me of the old comic books where the images were painted by hand. It has an ‘old’ feeling to it. 135. LW07-2024 Orange Light and Snow 20x29 cm | 8x11.5" - Oils/Panel | Roos Schuring 2024 These paintings are placed in my paintings shop here   The great thing of going to a similar spot, similar subject / time / conditions is that you ..read more

Orange Light. When it’s ‘white out’ you should not let any (painting) moment go to waste. Especially when a white landscape is a rarity. A red sun, long shadows in blue, that’s a great combination with snow.   It’s not always clear where I want to go, so I drove and just stopped here to view. I painted here before, but different light, results in different ideas. The tree coloring all orange, enough to plant the easel FAST, and start. 134. LW06-2024 Bright Morning Colors and Snow 20x29 cm | 8x11.5" - Oils/Panel | Roos Schuring 2024 These paintings are placed in my paintings shop here &nbs ..read more